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DoIt Talent Ventures appoints Murtuza Madraswala as business head
MUMBAI: DoIt Talent Ventures, a talent management firm, has appointed Murtuza Madraswala as the business head, Indiantelevision has learnt. Lead by Dharshana Bhalla and Radha Kapoor Khanna, the company marked its entry into the Indian market in April this year.
Madraswala was previously working as the head of marketing and PR for Sony Six and Sony ESPN. Having joined Sony in 2012, he played a pivotal role in the company’s FIFA World Cup and Euro campaigns over the years. Madraswala also crafted marketing initiatives for NBA and key cricket tournaments.
Madraswala joins the company with over two decades of experience in marketing and client servicing. He joined Sony from Amigo Sports where he was GM for marketing and worked on the FIFA business division.
Sony is not the only broadcaster Murtuza worked has with, he had a four-year stint with then ZEEL-owned Ten Sports.
In the span of three months, DoIt Talent Ventures has already signed a number of personalities across films and TV like Farhan Akhtar, John Abraham, Lara Dutta, Kajal Aggarwal and Neeraj Pandey.
When it comes to sporting talent, the brand now works with Virender Sehwag, Mahesh Bhupathi, Geeta Phogat, Ashwini Ponnappa, Robin Singh, Viren Rasquinha and Aparna Popat.
Dharshana Bhalla is a former CEO of Mates – the entertainment unit of Madison communication, while Radha Kapoor Khanna is founder and executive director of DoIt creations.
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Sameer Nair shares heartfelt note as he exits Applause Entertainment
After nine years building the streamer’s content engine, one of India’s best-known TV men is moving on
MUMBAI: Sameer Nair is out. The chief executive of Applause Entertainment, the content studio backed by Kumar Mangalam Birla’s media empire, has announced his departure after nearly nine years at the helm, closing the chapter on one of Indian entertainment’s more quietly consequential careers.
Nair, who built Applause from the ground up in its current avatar, oversaw a slate that spanned Indian originals and international adaptations, threading together a hub-and-spoke business model that partnered with streaming platforms, broadcasters and production houses alike. The results were uneven, as they always are in content, but the ambition was not.
In a post on LinkedIn, Nair was generous to his outgoing patron. He thanked Birla for being an “inspirational boss and a great patron of the arts,” and signed off with a cheerful “Au Revoir” and a promise to remain Applause’s biggest cheerleader. Whether that sentiment survives the next chapter remains to be seen.
No successor has been named. Applause Entertainment did not immediately comment.
Nair built the machine. Now someone else has to run it — and in a streaming market that is simultaneously consolidating and convulsing, that is no small ask.
